To Love In A Fucked Up World
The planet's most dominating forces distort love into illusion day by day. My wish is that this forage can help (even a little) to defend your heart in battle.
Notes Garden
Sharing reflections from what I read and watch, and notes from thinking in my zettelkasten.
Human selfishness is a colonial myth
Isn't it rational to believe that humans are innately violent, chaotic, and fragile? That our truest self is selfish and competitive, that we break into aggression and panic in disasters? Doesn't our power-hungry nature compel us to ruin everything?
Abusers always use the same moves (and physical violence is not one of them)
What should surprise us about abuse isn't how long it takes to leave, but that one has the strength to endure captivity disguised as courtship.
Writing for insight: Some design principles
How did I take notes before? What did I learn about writing for insight? How do I know what I know? Written at the 5-year mark of my zettelkasten practice.
To bear witness is an act of resistance
On bearing witness, decolonising death positivity, and being steadfast with a heart that will never recover.
Five ways of knowing
How do you know what you know? In what ways do we accept, question, or resist authority? This framework gives you a language to describe the depth of your knowledge in any topic.
In Japan for the first time
Brief stories of historical baddies
Remembering: Khutulun, Yennenga, the Trung sisters, Trieu Thi Trinh, Malahayati, Srikandi Tun Fatimah, Ching Shih, Sayyida al-Hurra, Chandramalar, Wong So Ying, Shamsiah Fakeh, Khatijah Sidek, Silvia Morello.
We can't leave anyone behind
We're just out here trying to survive men we didn't elect, and we can't leave anyone behind. How long do we endure processes that will not open ways forward?
Socrates, sense-perception, and the Quran
"This is what the earlier Muslim students of the Quran completely missed under the spell of classical speculation."
Listening to interfaith feminists in Southeast Asia
The discourse of faith and feminism in Southeast Asia is exciting and prolific, but often overlooked.
Coming out vs. coming in
"Coming in" is to think about inviting or allowing someone to "come in" to your life.